METZGER, PAUL - Deliverance

Minnesotas Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance -- a real time performance on his overhauled 21 string banjo -- youll be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying & impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia youre ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly 60 colossal minutes, Deliverance is 3 tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence; a hypnotic raga epic thats by turns a slow burning meditation & an urgent mind / body duel. Pauls playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bulls searching inventiveness, Billy Faiers out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens tweaked Americana, Henry Flynts searing harmonic drones or Big Jim Sullivans psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, Metzger is no idolater and were all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular post in this post-Fahey world. - Locust.